What is "runs up"

Usage examples of "runs up".

Then one of the big spear-carrying men runs up and she hands the booty over to him.

He saw his own orbit as something that included Topanga, Big Sur, Tijuana, the Strip and occasional runs up north to the Bay Area.

He's sniffing and wiping his nose with the back of his hand before he runs up the steps into the house like he's ashamed of himself, which he shouldn't be because what he's done is very nice.

He waits downstairs and runs up to show patients out when I ring the consulting-room bell.

Down at the end of the great Ravine that runs up-country from the sea, beneath the cliffs, along the Batteries, in the evenings, Islanders looking to catch the breeze will nightly promenade.

Then the growth will expand until it runs up against its property lines.

Rife changes his mind and runs up the stairway, taking the steps three at a time.

Clare turns and runs up the path, into the arms of her lighted and welcoming house, and I turn to the dark and begin to walk across the meadow.